One Thousand

This is going to be a doddle. After one thousand posts, and innumerable words, writing a Quirky Muffin has got to be one of the easiest things in the world. One thousand posts! Ah, it gives a person a warm feeling to know that the wheels have been spinning here on this project for so long, and why wouldn't they keep on spinning for a thousand more?

One thousand is a large number, and was coincidentally the largest of the dedicated Roman numerals. They didn't seem to need any larger numbers, so why do we? Something fantastic must have happened in the centuries since for us to require gigantic numbers, or maybe it was just the advances in astronomy. You can't really describe the distances between planets without inventing a new number or five.

After failing to accurately predict where the Quirky Muffin would be heading for the last couple of hundred posts (I thought I would be able to keep the stories going, alas), it now seems pretty silly to make a forecast for the next thousand. At the moment, it seems very probable that there will be lots of blathering, quite a lot of talking around books, movies and television episodes, and lots of equally unimportant other things. There are no pretencions, for this is nothing more than an excuse to write a few hundred words every couple of days or so. Just a few hundred words, to avoid becoming rusty in the wordsmithery.

In the spirit of the uplifting time of year, with the lengthening of the days, and the stirring spirit of exploration, it's time to turn a corner here and be positively confused instead of negatively lost. There have been many losses of focus, and many recoveries, and they will probably happen again. This weblog is built from the foundational reading not of doom and gloom, but of Verne and 'Star Trek' (novels). This is a place where 'The Dish' is one of the barons of movies, and 'Galaxy Quest' is the cinema's court jester. Let's not be gloomy, but be optimistic.

There are brighter times to come. There always are. The Captain's String is holding, as they say in Diane Carey's 'Best Destiny'. 'Star Trek' novels have a lot to answer for, don't they? There are some very good ones in that pile, before mediocrity set in.

Onward to two thousand!

O.